Privacy

It recently emerged that six of the UK’s biggest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have made agreements with the BPI, the UK record industry’s trade association, to monitor, warn, and possibly ban customers who fileshare illegally. A Virgin press release earlier

As mentioned previously on this blog (and discussed in Pocket Issue: Big Brother out in Autumn 2008), the privacy of internet users is coming under increasing threat. Last week, British scientist and inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee

The government recently published a Green Paper on the creative economy. It contained an addendum at odds with the bubbly tone of the rest of the report; a proposal for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to monitor user activity for copyright